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Managers of Cayman funds are being encouraged to act now to ensure they fully comply with the new obligations of the Cayman Islands Data Protection Law, 2017 scheduled to come into effect on 30 September 2019.
The new law will enact a framework of rights and duties to regulate the processing of individuals’ personal data broadly based on the same internationally recognised privacy principles that form the basis for other data protection laws globally.
Ogier partner James Heinicke says that the law will regulate the processing of all personal data in the Cayman Islands and will affect any entity
Fiona Southall has joined Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management as “Senior Specialist Sales – Private Markets”. Based in the Paris office, she reports to Gad Amar, Deputy CEO at Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management, who is also responsible for business development.
Southall (pictured) is in charge of promoting the Private Market product range managed by the Edmond de Rothschild Group and offered to international investors: Private Equity, Real Estate, and Infrastructure Debt.
Southall has over 15 years of professional experience. She graduated from Strathclyde University Business School (Glasgow) and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) charterholder. She started
Small business investment house IW Capital has launched a new EIS Portfolio Service, allowing access to investment into the UK’s of high-growth SMEs, through the Enterprise Investment Scheme (IES).
The service will cater to both advisers and private investors with a simple transparent fee structure providing investors with the ability to claim tax relief on the full investment amount. Launched after considerable demand from IFAs, the service will allow easier routes to investment in a fast growing sector of the UK economy for clients looking to diversify their portfolios with high-growth private companies.
IW Capital is an established firm in the EIS space dealing with growing businesses since 2010 and
Lenses.io, a specialist in DataOps, has raised USD7.5 million in Series A funding from international VC firm, 83North, joining the company’s previous investor, Marathon Venture Capital. Laurel Bowden, Partner at 83North led the funding round and joins Lenses’ board of directors.
The company plans to use the funding to accelerate product development and scale operations in Europe and the US to meet growing international demand. Lenses launched its flagship DataOps product in early 2018 and has enjoyed rapid customer adoption, including multiple Fortune 500 companies such as Babylon Health, Daimler, Zopa, Playtika and SAS Software.
Real-time data analysis has
Aviva Investors has appointed Ed Dixon to the newly created role of Head of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), Real Assets.
Based in London, Dicon joined Aviva Investors on September 16 and reports to Melanie Collett, Head of Asset Management, Real Estate. He will be responsible for the ESG programme for Aviva Investors’ GBP45 billion Real Assets platform, encompassing Real Estate, Infrastructure and Private Debt. He will work closely with colleagues across the platform and the Global Responsible Investment team to lead the firm’s ESG strategy in Real Assets across investment, development and asset management.
DixonEd has over 17
Mid-market private equity investor LDC has invested GBP24million to back the management buyout of SRL Traffic Systems, a UK manufacturer and provider of portable and temporary traffic equipment, as it embarks on the next phase of its growth strategy.
Headquartered in Cheshire, SRL boasts a nationwide network of 26 depots. It has the industry’s widest range of temporary pedestrian and traffic light systems, and is the UK market leader in sale and hire to the traffic management sector. Its equipment is used on many of the UK’s large infrastructure projects, providing customers with 24/7 support and maintenance services.
The buyout
Mid-market private equity investor LDC has invested GBP24million to back the management buyout of SRL Traffic Systems, the UK’s leading manufacturer and provider of portable and temporary traffic equipment, as it embarks on the next phase of its growth strategy.
Headquartered in Cheshire, SRL boasts a nationwide network of 26 depots. It has the industry’s widest range of temporary pedestrian and traffic light systems, and is the UK market leader in sale and hire to the traffic management sector. Its equipment is used on many of the UK’s large infrastructure projects, providing customers with 24/7 support and maintenance services.
The
TreasurySpring, a London-based financial technology company has closed a GBP2 million investment round led by ETFS Capital, with participation from MMC Ventures and existing investors.
The round was more than three times oversubscribed and the company has now raised more than GBP3.5 million since its first external capital injection in November 2017.
TreasurySpring was voted one of the top three fintech startups in Europe at the prestigious Money20/20 conference in June 2019, before publicly launching its digital Fixed-Term Fund (FTF) portal in July, following a year of rigorous beta testing. It has already issued more than USD600 million of
Private equity firm The Riverside Company has made a non-control investment in Affinitiv, a portfolio company of CIP Capital, in connection with its transformative acquisition of Loop (AutoLoop).
Affinitiv and AutoLoop are leading providers of data-driven marketing automation and software solutions to the automotive market, offering an integrated product suite focused on retention marketing, scheduling and service lane software. The combined business will offer a comprehensive, end-to-end solution designed to maximise customer retention and dealership revenue throughout the entire ownership lifecycle. The combined company will operate under the Affinitiv brand name and will be headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
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Investcorp, a provider and manager of alternative investment products, is to acquire Ticket Holding (Vivaticket) from co-founders Luca Montebugnoli and Luana Sabattini, P4P of Giuseppe Camillo Pilenga, Girefin Trust of Stefano Landi and Bravo Capital Partners SCA RAIF (BCP).
Vivaticket’s co-founders and management team will continue to remain involved in the business and hold a meaningful stake in the Company. The transaction is expected to close by year-end, subject to customary closing conditions.
Established in 1999, Vivaticket is a leading global provider of integrated ticketing software solutions to the leisure and entertainment, sport, culture and tradeshow industries. The Company’s
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